Word: mahon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Mahon, Minorca's chief town, the British cruiser Devonshire called last week. On board was the Count of San Luis, a Franco negotiator. The British arranged a conference at which Loyalist leaders were told of an impending attack, were threatened with starvation even if the attack were repulsed. Upshot: the red-&-gold Rebel flag was soon unfurled on Minorca and the Devonshire sailed away toward Marseille with 450 Loyalists who had feared to stay on the island...
That Italy was anything but happy over this British intervention in the war was evident from Italian newspapers, which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief...
...Iviza in the name of General Franco, Britain held her peace for the reason that Minorca, easternmost of the three islands and most important with regard to Britain's lifeline, remained safe in Leftist hands, and Minorca has about the finest natural harbor in the Mediterranean at Port Mahon...
Since the non-intervention patrol, and particularly since the "piracy" patrol British and French ships have mutually used strategic Port Mahon as an anchorage-one more reason for that extraordinary harmony of Franco-British policy which even the Germans were admiring last week...
...into a radio union. President Wharton of the Machinists described the C. I. O. as "Lewis, Hillman, Dubinsky, Howard and their gang of sluggers. Communists, radicals and soap-box artists, professional bums, expelled members of labor unions, outright scabs and the Jewish organizations with all their Red affiliates." President Mahon of the Street Car employes told how pickle workers had been taken into C. I. O.'s automobile workers' union and added, "even the Machinists never did that...